Jessica Treadway (born 1961

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) is an American

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writer.

Life

She was raised in

. She graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, and from

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, with an MA. She worked as a reporter for

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. She held a fellowship at the Bunting Institute of

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

, and taught at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

. She teaches at

Emerson College Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands ( Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a ...

. Her fiction has been published in ''The Atlantic'', ''

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'', ''The Hudson Review'', ''Glimmer Train'', ''AGNI'', ''Five Points''. She wrote the libretto for composer

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’s opera after

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’s '' The Marble Faun'', and served as literary co-translator of “A Crowning Experience” by Kostiantyn Moskalets in ''From Three Worlds: New Writing From the Ukraine''. She is on the Board of Directors of PEN-New England. She lives in

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with her husband, Philip Holland.

Awards

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* Massachusetts Cultural Council. * 1993

John C. Zacharis First Book Award The John C. Zacharis First Book Award honors the best first book of poetry or fiction by a ''Ploughshares'' writer. The award carries a cash prize of $1,500, and feature publication in the "Postscripts" section of the Winter issue. It was started ...

* 2009

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor. Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringi ...

Works

* ''Please Come Back To Me'', short stories, University of Georgia Press, October 2010 * *

Anthologies

* The Best American Short Stories * The O. Henry Prize Stories *

References

External links

"Author' website"
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20090716184542/http://www.womenwriters.net/may2003/AndGiveYouPeace.htm "Review by: Emily Koon", ''Women Writers'', May 2003 {{DEFAULTSORT:Treadway, Jessica 1961 births American women short story writers Writers from Albany, New York University at Albany, SUNY alumni Boston University alumni Tufts University faculty Emerson College faculty Living people 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American women academics